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March 22, 1929 WILMETTE LIFE 35 .t ! I "Opera 1s Not Yet ·Part of America," John Charles Thomas ... language. A.s I · say, it has been .done in shorter songs." Mr. Thomas has the highest ·ideals for his goddess, and frets when she doe:; not live up to them. "She must John Charles Thomas, the admir- Rot be content ·with half-gods," he s~ys. "Whatever it is-gay and trifling, able baritone who very recently elicited or profound and mighty, it must be her some of the warmest applause north best effort. And mine." shore music patrons have ever accorded any singer, has much to sa,. w·11 A · dM about light and grand opera in tten eeting. ct.rrent "Musical Dige.;t." Library School Alumnae "There is just as much satisfaction "Mis s Anne L. \Yhitmack, librarian and artistic accomplishment in a good at the Wilmette Public library, and an performance of one as of the other ," alumnae of the \Vestern Re sene unihe says. America needs comic and light opera, beautifully done. It will versity School of Library Science, ""ill come, some day . . . . I would not attend a dinner at the Stevens hotel take anything for my earlier experi- Monday night, March 25, for all ence in light opera-it was invaluable graduate s of that school Ill Chifor stage training. But America will never feel that per.;onal interest in c~go and vicinity. Miss Alice S. opera which European countrie s do Tyler, dean of the school, and Mi ss until it is 'bred in the bone.' " By that Sewell Chase Sawyer, of Rogers Park, pre$ident of the regional alumnae, " .;11 I mean opera in the English language. be among the notables attending. Opera is merely an ~xcrescence on tht \lHtsical life of America; it is not a WINS PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE tradition which we have grown UfJ Glencoe receh·ed another prize in a with. 1t is rath~r an importation, grafted on at the top, and hardly pene- photography contest last Sunday, when trating to a level of consciousness the Chicago Tribune offered an award for a picture of Mrs. Everly L. Haine s which is not consciousne· :; , but intui of 415 \\' ashington avenue taken tive feeling. among her flowers b,· her late husband. "\V c do not feel opera a s a part E. L. Haines. of us." he goes on to say. "It is rather a curiosity to be observed, lauded. ap Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Lusk. 810 ~Iichi preciated · because it is essential1y gan aYenue, their daughter, Mr s. Peas European, and left in the opera hou e ter of lake Forest, and their son and until we can vi·:;it it again, as we vwuld his \Yife, Mr. and Mrs. James Lusk. a museum." He holds up American spent last \n.·ek-encl in Canton, Ohio. opera s and asks how many refl e ct as th e gue sts of ~r. Lu sk's cousin. and American life and traditio~? But his familY. the Frank Clhmels. ~1r . composer. can't be forced to \\'rite an'cl ~{rs .. Lusk recently returned from American operas. he ays. "\i\' e shall Hot Springs, Ark., where they had been have te> wait for the moment when vacationing for two weeks. some composer will be inspired to give -ous thi.; thing. Until that time, it might Mr. and ~Ir s . George A. Chronis be wise to further investigate the (Louise Koepke) formerly of \Vilchances of bringing other countries' mette, are receiYing congratulations contributions to our stages in English. on the birth of a son, born Saturday, "I believe tha. t the reason for so March 16, at their home, 2317 1\orth much difficultv, which has been ex- Rockwell street, Chicago. perienced by the people whe> have attempted to do this so far, is that the translations of the operas are invariably bad . . . Glance at anY of the English translations of the Wagnerian operas. Models of ridiculous, Specializing in the treatment and often shameful, mouthings! . . . Most translations are simply a careless of your best friends, the string-ing together of word·3, literally translated from the original, meaningless, crassly stupid. The inflection, the All Calls Receive My Personal accent of one language are different Attention from those of another. Granted. 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